Can Selenium verify text inside a PDF loaded by the browser?

Can Selenium verify text inside a PDF loaded by the browser?

You cannot do this using WebDriver natively. However, PDFBox API can be used here to read content of PDF file. You will have to first of all shift a focus to browser window where PDF file is opened. You can then parse all the content of PDF file and search for the desired text string.

How do I check the contents of a PDF?

Check accessibility of PDFs (Acrobat Pro)

  1. Choose Tools > Accessibility.
  2. In the secondary toolbar, click Full Check/Accessibility Check.
  3. In the Report Options section, select options for how you want to view the results.
  4. Select a page range if you prefer to check individual pages of a document.

How to handle PDF in Selenium WebDriver?

How To Handle PDF In Selenium Webdriver? To handle a PDF document in Selenium test automation, we can use a java library called PDFBox. Apache PDFBox is an open-source library that exclusively helps in handling the PDF documents.

Is it possible to verify the contents of a PDF?

We are using C#. You can download the said PDF using Selenium webdriver, however I don’t think you can verify the contents of the PDF, because that is not possible as far as I know using Selenium webdriver alone. You can use Apache PDFBox to verify PDF contents- however it is a JAVA library.

How to extract text and verify text present in PDF?

There are multiple ways of doing this. 1. A very simple way without using any third party libraries. 2. Extract the text from PDF and then validate if the text you are looking is present in the PDF document or not. We should go for this ONLY when we want to validate something for sure.

Is there a way to print to PDF in chrome?

One possible solution not involving Chrome, is by using a tool like wkhtmltopdf. Going on this path would force me to – before sending the HTML to the tool – do the following: Don’t prefer this path as it would require a lot of tinkering [I assume] on my part to get downloads’ file paths correct for wkhtmltopdf to read correctly.